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founded wasteLAnd, a concert series in Los Angeles that focuses on rarely-heard music of the last few decades. He has worked as a sound engineer for performances of electro-acoustic works by Boulez, Lucier, Meadowcroft, Nono, Reynolds, Sciarrino, and Stockhausen and as a recording engineer for albums released on Populist Records, Orenda Records, and on individual projects. Worthington has performed around the world at the Carlsbad Music Faculty Showcase Festival, the Chihuahua International Festival, June in Buffalo, the The Music of Mark Dancigers & Anthony Suter Lucerne Festival, Monday Evening Concerts, MicroFest, and the WithOutWalls Festival. His music has been performed around the world Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 8 p.m. by ensembles and soloists in art galleries, concert halls, and venues Frederick Loewe Performance Hall such as the Carlsbad Music Festival, the Center for New Music, the DiMenna Center, Mengi, The Stone, and Roulette. He and his music Skyline (2016) Mark Dancigers can be heard on Albany Records, Bridge Records, Hat Hut, Naxos, New Focus Recordings, Populist Records, and Tzadik. Samuel Fischer, violin Worthington studied at the Eastman School of Music with James The Bright Motion I (2011) VanDemark and the University of California San Diego with Mark Dresser. While in San Diego, he also studied the Alexander Technique Alastair Edmonstone, piano with Eileen Trobermann. He performs on a copy of a Lorenzo Carcassi bass built for him by Barrie Kolstein. Rain (2005, revision 2017) Sara Andon, flute Alastair Edmonstone, piano Aurora (2016) Mark Dancigers, electric guitar Stephanie Lovell, piano Burst (2009) Sara Andon, flute Kathryn Nevin, clarinet Mark Dancigers, electric guitar For a complete calendar of School of Music events visit Stephanie Lovell, piano www.redlands.edu/music Scott Worthington, bass Electric Breakdown (2008) Anthony Suter of Redlands Wind Ensemble and Wheaton (Illinois) Municipal Band. Sara Andon, flute Kathryn Nevin, clarinet Dr. Nevin has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” and Mark Dancigers, electric guitar numerous times on local classical music radio live broadcasts. She has Stephanie Lovell, piano appeared in chamber music concerts with faculty at the University of Scott Worthington, bass Redlands, the Taylor String Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, as well as with Los Angeles Philharmonic principal strings. She has taught at La Program Notes Sierra University, the University of California, Riverside, Riverside Community College, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Pasadena Conservatory of Music and Glendale College. Dr. Nevin is on the faculty of the Skyline (2016) Mark Dancigers Montecito International Music Festival, has produced instructional videos for MusicProfessor.com, and is currently Artist Teacher of The title could suggest a text-painting image, in which the high Clarinet on the faculty of Redlands University School of Music. notes of each phrase outline buildings of a certain height in a city skyline. Another reading of the title could be more abstract, in which Scott Worthington, bass “Skyline” refers to the musical line being written by the violin in the air. Scott Worthington is a double bassist and composer based in Los Angeles. As a performer, he plays in chamber ensembles, orchestras, I am wrestling with Bach a bit in this piece. I was drawn to Bach’s recording studios, and as a soloist. His music has been commissioned solo violin pieces as an inspiration because of their awesomeness by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Loadbang, the Ekmeles and because players can take them and make them their own. I’ve Vocal Ensemble, and numerous soloists. In 2017, Worthington became also played the E major partita on guitar, so re-encountering this the principal bass of the Redlands Symphony and the Artist Teacher of music was like re-discovering an old friend. Bass at the University of Redlands. I wrote this piece for a wonderful friend and player, Michi Wiancko, As a performer-composer Worthington has released two albums to who has commissioned a series of solos and is in the process of critical acclaim on Populist Records. The most recent, Prism, features making a new album of these works. his own music for solo bass with electronics and bass ensemble and was named one of The New Yorker’s top ten classical albums of 2015 The Bright Motion I (2011) by Alex Ross. He frequently commissions new music for solo bass and has recently premiered pieces by Michael Pisaro, Clarence Barlow, The title of this piece refers to how I hear certain types of harmonic and Randy Gibson. As a chamber musician, Worthington is a regular motion, particularly in the piano music of Beethoven and Chopin. performer in LA’s new music community and is a member of Bass2Bass, an electric bass duo with performer-composer Michelle Lou. Along While for some listeners the sound world of this piece might evoke with violinist Andrew McIntosh, he was part of the second duo to give Debussy, my inspirations were much more rooted in my (probably performances of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s Plainsound Glissando idiosyncratic) hearing of 19th century piano repertoire. Modulation, a concert-length work in extended just intonation. I wrote this piece for my good friend and long-time collaborator His other engagements span a variety of areas in contemporary music. Michael Mizrahi, and he recorded this piece on an album of the same Worthington is active as a concert organizer and in 2013 he co- to missionary parents in Japan, Stephanie Lovell received her early title. Michael wrote that the piece “is a kind of imaginary ballet in an musical training there, then later entered the University of Redlands to imaginary landscape”; that sounds about right. study with Louanne Fuchs Long, under whose tutelage she completed two degrees, graduating summa cum laude. During her university Rain (2005, revision 2017) years, she won several competitions, including the prestigious Joanna Hodges International Piano Conference and Competition in which she I originally wrote this piece for flutist Daniel Alexander and was a four-time winner. She was also privileged to solo with orchestras percussionist Joshua Quillen, now of So Percussion, to be performed in the Inland Empire. An exercising and hiking enthusiast, Stephanie on Steel Drums (double seconds). I was thrilled at the opportunity tries to balance her professional life with outdoor activities. She and to arrange the steel drum part for piano. For this reason, you’ll hear her husband, Lars, enjoy entertaining and sharing good food and that the piano part lives in a limited range on the instrument. I like conversation around the table. this restriction of expressive means. The piece is primarily driven by melody in the beginning and, towards the end, by rhythm and Kathryn Nevin, clarinet texture. Kathryn Nevin earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clarinet Aurora (2016) Performance from University of Southern California, where she studied with Mitchell Lurie, Michele Zukovsky, David Howard and Yehuda Gilad. Originally from the Chicago area, she was a student of Melvin In Spring 2016 I was struck by the idea of forming an electric guitar Warner at Northern Illinois University where she received a Bachelor and piano duo and writing an extended composition for it. As with of Music. In Southern California, Dr. Nevin has performed with many much of my music, a main inspiration was the opportunity to work orchestras including San Diego Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, New with a wonderful performer, in this case pianist Aaron Wunsch. The West Symphony, Long Beach Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony, Opera project is on-going, and I continue to be fascinated by the sonic Santa Barbara, Monterey Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic. She possibilities and capabilities of these two versatile instruments. I is a member of St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Desert Symphony almost imagine the ensemble to be something like a piano duo with in Palm Desert, Redlands Symphony Orchestra and Long Beach more timbral variation - lots of sound and notes are possible, and Municipal Band. sometimes the challenge is to bring clarity. Dr. Nevin is an active soloist and chamber musician, having been a Aurora is a piece that utilizes live looping. In performance, guitar founding member of several award-winning ensembles, including tracks are “recorded”, played back, and layered on top of each other Triole, recipient of an NEA Chamber Music Residency. She is currently in real time. I use this as an opportunity for both instruments to have a member of Calico Winds, an award-winning internationally touring short “solos” over a rhythmically active texture. wind quintet, whose recordings and performances around the country have received critical acclaim, including those at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Burst (2009) Recital Hall. The ensemble’s most recent commercial release, Vintage America, A Musical Meritage (Albany), features 19th and early 20th This is a piece for NOW Ensemble, the collective of players and century American music. Her playing can also be heard on the CDs composers I co-founded with friends at the Yale School of Music Hymns to Forgotten Moons (Centaur) and Tango Rojo (Red Tango) in 2004. The piece started with the idea to showcase the guitar; (Candlelight Music). She has been a concerto soloist with the Redlands that does happen a little bit, but the melodies in all instruments end Symphony, Culver City Symphony, La Sierra Symphony, University up taking center stage. The opening of the piece was inspired a bit County Philharmonic, the Desert Symphony, the Los Angeles Doctors by the Mozart Requiem and the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, and Symphony, the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Orchestra Santa Monica, the guitar lines by the Malian guitarist and songwriter “Ali Farka” and the Caltech-Occidental Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared Touré. as soloist with the Aspen Young Artists Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony.